My native language is Dutch. I do write and read mostly in English for my work (you’re looking at it), hobby (my personal blog and news addiction) and studies. Of course, I like to improve my English proficiency all the time. Now you could take up lessons to improve your language skills but I think [...]

iTunes is a widely used music library program, mainly because you need it when you’re using an iPod or iPhone. I use it myself, but mainly because I have to in order to get some music on my iPod Touch. We have written about alternative ways to sync your iPod with your music collection, but [...]

My Flickr premium subscription has just expired. I have been very happy with the paid service but I have the feeling that I can find a good replacement for free somewhere. The free version of Flickr is also nice but really lacks if you want to use it as your main photo storage. Only the [...]

Facebook is continuing to grow and has passed the 300 million user mark. Every 100 million extra have added faster. The first 100 million obviously took years, but the second 100 million took eight months and the third 100 million took about 5 months. Facebook attracts all kinds of people and connects people from all [...]

Now you can tag your friends and all other people in your Flickr photos. This may sound familiar from other services like Facebook. It took Flickr a while to implement the feature, but as you’d expect, they really made the Flickr tags work well. Especially the way you have control over where you show up [...]

If I had to guess, I would say many of you are screen junkies like me. You spend most of the day in front of your computer’s screen, at work and at home. That might interfere with your health. Some time ago, I was told of a “trick” for people who work in an office [...]

Most people prefer reading documents on paper over reading on a computer screen. Especially anything longer than a blog post is more easily read from good old paper. I believe this has something to do with the position of your head, but also the fact that you’re basically looking right into a lit screen for [...]

Did you know you can customize a little of your Gmail inbox by changing the so-called Gmail web clips? Web clips are the little pieces of text just above your e-mail inbox. You would think it was just a regular place to display Google’s advertising, but if you pay attention you might see some other [...]

Over the years, Firefox has kept gaining users and respected by many. First applauded for taking on the “big guy” Internet Explorer by Microsoft, it was soon also appreciated for its features. It has brought many people tabbed browsing and a plugin structure. Doing my research for this post (yes, it’s almost like real journalism [...]

Kazaa has been around for some time now as a way to share files with people on the internet. For me personally it replaced Napster as soon as that got in trouble with lawsuits and decided to stops its file and music sharing services. Kazaa used its own sharing network and soon grew larger with [...]

There has recently been a new addition to the gadget websites. You might think there are enough gadget blogs and news sites already, but that is also exactly what the creators of gdgt thought. That is why they haven’t started a regular gadget news site, but more of a social network news site. They call [...]

We’ve loved free and open-source blogging software WordPress since many updates ago. But the last couple of updates have brought some great new features and improvements of WordPress, so it’s time to tell you about the best and most useful features of the latest 2.8 release and the updates up until 2.8.4 that came soon [...]

Most blog authors don’t like to slow down and complicate their websites for any reason and most blog readers hate having to read a page that’s decorated like a Christmas tree with ads, headers and "share this" and "tweet me" buttons. Sometimes though you encounter a tool that doesn’t complicate your life but just makes [...]

Friendfeed lets you aggregate your online profiles and view the aggregate feed of your friends. For somebody who is not a heavy user of social networks it might all seem a bit overwhelming. While Friendfeed does have many features and options, when you get to a good start and invest a little time to figure [...]